Coach Zorn Does Not View Sunday As A Preseason Game

One more note from Coach Zorn’s press conference today. This one’s going to disappoint a few of the regular readers of the blog, so I think it’s best if we just tear it off like a band-aid: the rookies aren’t going to be seeing extra playing time just because the team is eliminated. Here’s Zorn’s [...]

Zorn Motivates With The Fetal Position

If I had to pick one phrase I don’t particularly want to hear my coach saying with any sincerity, it’s probably “I’m the worst coach in America.” Well, we cleared that hurdle last week, and I actually thought Coach Zorn delivered the line well, and recovered from the fallout well also. If there’s a second [...]

Wednesday, December 17: Talking About Practice

Wednesday, as always, marks the restarting of the football portion of the week. The players are back in the building and the team is getting ready for Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles. This means things like meetings, film study, and, of course, practice. At some point after this afternoon’s practice, I’ll post my thoughts [...]

Zorn Evaluates Zorn

There was a noticeably different tone to Coach Zorn’s press conference today, a change that actually addresses some of the most common concerns about his approach during this second half of the season. There was little (if any) discussion of execution, of specific mistakes made by players, of plays that had gone wrong. What we [...]

The Portis/Zorn Radio Apocalypse!!!!!!! (Kind Of)

As I was driving back to Redskins Park from Antwaan Randle El‘s charity event today, I was listening to Clinton Portis‘s appearance on the John Thompson Show on ESPN980. Portis was clearly frustrated — with the team’s losing, with being benched (or “benched,” depending on who you ask), with his head coach — and he [...]

Coach Zorn Shuffles The O-Line Deck

The highlight from Coach Zorn’s press conference today is the reshuffling of the offensive line, a move born more of necessity than of any particular desire on Zorn’s part. (To judge by the comments, though, there are plenty of fans who will be pleased to see some change — ANY change — along the lines, [...]

Friday, December 5: Zorn’s Necklace in Brief

At the start of this week, the DC Sports Bog ran a picture of Coach Jim Zorn wearing a “necklace of unknown provenance”. Well, after a grueling week of intense research, I can happily report that the provenance is now 100% known. The necklace is the Rakuwa Titanium Necklace X30 Aqua Titan (or some combination [...]

Harbaugh May Be Another Entertaining Rookie Coach

Jim Zorn has established himself here in D.C. not only as a talented young football coach, but also as a seemingly endless source of entertaining stories and quirky turns of phrase. Today’s post-practice press conference was relatively mild from that perspective — an “ab-so-LOOT-ley,” the observation that moving Sunday’s game to prime time means “We’re [...]

Finally, The Video: Jim Zorn on Austrian TV

A couple of weeks ago, a friendly TV crew from the Austrian TV network ORF stopped by the locker room to get interviews to use during their broadcast of the Redskins/Cowboys game. I was entranced by the possibilities represented by Coach Zorn’s interview with the network, and especially by his greeting to the people of [...]

The Play Coach Zorn Did Not Call

Honestly, Coach Zorn’s press conference was a little disappointing. Not from a news perspective — he covered all of that perfectly well. He confirmed that Jason Campbell was his starting quarterback, that Shaun Suisham is still the kicker, and reiterated his “execution” points. He characterized Jason Campbell’s performance as “very average,” but hastened to clarify [...]